Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 5:29 pm

Drunk Dialed Ian MacKaye

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:15 pmPosts: 1802Location: Seattle!

I feel like half my week is spent cleaning. Today, I have spent forty minutes cleaning my bedroom (I really let it go, and since dusting puts me out like nobody's business, I avoid it frequently), and I'm just now finishing up my laundry. I'm really not at all a dirty person- it was just a lot of clutter piling up since I'm never in here.

But I feel like every other day I'm seriously cleaning the kitchen and front room - vacuuming, dishes, wiping down the counters, mopping, cleaning the stove, cleaning out the fridge, getting rid of the cat hair on the sofas, tossing out junk mail and random crepe, etc. I haven't even touched the bathroom because I'm so sick of cleaning the rest of the damn house.

And my roommates do usually take out the trash and recycling (never the compost, which is a chore I refuse to do...wet/old food makes me gag), but I'm always the one doing the aforementioned chores. And NOBODY bothers to clean the bathroom when I ask them to, so our tub is getting dirtier and dirtier...and I don't want to give in and do it because, HELLO, I clean the house at least once a week.

I'm just annoyed. I love having a clean house, and I am definitely the most anal about it, but I don't even expect it to be perfect. Just not dirty. sigh.

Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 7:11 pm

Should Spend More Time Helping the Animals

Joined: Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:57 pmPosts: 6517Location: Boston, MA

ashley wrote:

The default bread on that sandwich (tomato something) has honey in it, so you've got to swap that out too. Minus the gross hummus (and I like cilantro!), I don't think it's really worth ordering.

Especially not if it's black bean soup day!

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I'm inspired to make my own! I am going try out this puppet, but I think I'll make it single crochet.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INTxOlNFuLAI wish the pattern were written out along with the youtube! It's hard to follow a video tutorial because i like to watch tv while i crochet!

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The default bread on that sandwich (tomato something) has honey in it, so you've got to swap that out too. Minus the gross hummus (and I like cilantro!), I don't think it's really worth ordering.

I assume you live somewhere with options. Around here, this is exciting stuff!

We've got Chipotle (with a perpetually super long line I can't physically stand in), Noodles and Company, and Panera.

What I usually do is get the Italian bread, no cilantro, extra peppers, avocado, then add Vegenaise at home and put the chips on the sandwich. I've started sort of liking the hummus though. I could make something better myself, but since I have nowhere to park at work that doesn't half kill me, my mobility and ability to do things like make sandwiches is gone (I have to use a cane again). Panera has a drive through!

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Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 7:24 pm

Kitchens Planning Manchester

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:28 pmPosts: 2536Location: Connecticut

sweet_potato wrote:

I used to have the best handwriting in my family, which still isn't saying much. It keeps getting worse and worse. Probably because I also write quickly, and small. But I think it's a myth that lefties have worse handwriting because all of the lefties I know write neater than I do (and do have nice handwriting too) ;)

Totes a myth! Well, sort of. Ballpoint pens don't work correctly for left-handed people (since the writing motion becomes pushing more than pulling) so they can actually make left-handed handwriting look different. My handwriting is really pretty with certain kinds of pens (I may have a list of top 3 preferred brands/styles) but looks really bad in ballpoint.

Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:41 pm

Dying from Nooch Lung

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:30 pmPosts: 3320Location: Almost Boston

My handwriting was barely legible up until age 13. I can remember one teacher making me write the letter o between each word and then erase it at the end, because otherwise my work was one long line of chicken scratch with no spaces. Then I got to 7th grade and my new teacher was young and nice and instantly became everyone's favorite. Her handwriting was like a stereotypical high school girl's, but I thought it was wonderful, so I carefully copied down what she wrote on the chalkboard, making the letters the same way she did. It's funny when I look back at pieces of old schoolwork, because the writing is terrible, terrible, then suddenly super neat. Now it's messy again because I don't care anymore.

My friend who was supposed to hang out with me on Saturday and never showed up or called still has not contacted me. So now I'm worried, because what if something bad happened to them? I left a voicemail saying please call me back, and nothing. If nothing bad happened and they just "forgot" or whatever, I am going to be so pissed off.

Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:52 pm

Hip Goiter

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:07 pmPosts: 8357Location: Philly/London

raspberrycomplaint wrote:

My handwriting was barely legible up until age 13. I can remember one teacher making me write the letter o between each word and then erase it at the end, because otherwise my work was one long line of chicken scratch with no spaces. Then I got to 7th grade and my new teacher was young and nice and instantly became everyone's favorite. Her handwriting was like a stereotypical high school girl's, but I thought it was wonderful, so I carefully copied down what she wrote on the chalkboard, making the letters the same way she did. It's funny when I look back at pieces of old schoolwork, because the writing is terrible, terrible, then suddenly super neat. Now it's messy again because I don't care anymore.

Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 10:08 pm

Sick of Cupcakes

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:35 pmPosts: 6750Location: Norristown, PA

ijustdiedinside wrote:

I'm inspired to make my own! I am going try out this puppet, but I think I'll make it single crochet.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INTxOlNFuLAI wish the pattern were written out along with the youtube! It's hard to follow a video tutorial because i like to watch tv while i crochet!

Oh wow, that puppy is cute but yeah, I hate video tutorials for patterns. Why would I want to sit there for half an hour and watch someone else do what I could do just fine on my own if they just wrote out the pattern? I guess different people have different learning styles, but me, there's no way I'm going to sit through a video. And I'm pretty much always watching Netflix or listening to music while I crochet, too!

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Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 12:59 am

Level 7 Vegan

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:31 pmPosts: 1523Location: In the land of Druids and Moonrakers

I was listening to a radio interview with a Canadian woman who had been decorated with one of the highest military honours. They made it sound as if her medal was because her platoon was all male. Surely not? Anyhoo, the interviewer asked her how the soldiers had responded to her command and she said "At first they were a little weary of me...". And then repeated it a couple of times in the interview. It threw me because here 'weary' means tired, and the context sounded more like she meant 'wary' or cautious. And then I remembered seeing a post somewhere on the PPK with a similar use of weary. Is it a thing?

Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 2:34 am

Level 7 Vegan

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:31 pmPosts: 1523Location: In the land of Druids and Moonrakers

Oh! I didn't mean for that to sound like I was criticising! I was thinking more along the lines that my Canadian uncles say com-POST where we say COM-post, and we call the shampoo stuff Pan-ten, and American friends say pan-teen.

Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 7:21 am

Should Spend More Time Helping the Animals

Joined: Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:57 pmPosts: 6517Location: Boston, MA

torque wrote:

maybe they were not sure if it was wary or leery, and made a bit of a blend....

I had the exact same thought. I do this infrequently and coin new words.

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Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:32 am

Invented Vegan Meringue

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:20 pmPosts: 4095Location: Edinburgh

It's very, very common for people to say "weary" when they mean "wary". I think some people just don't know that they're two different words.

Woot, my washing is done (it just beeped while i was typing)! I just need to hang it up and I'm on my way to Glasgow! Not to put too much pressure on it, but I'm going to a concert that could possibly be the best concert I've ever been to - Danny Elfman's music from Tim Burton's films, and DE is performing. If there's a meet and greet, it will be the best night of my life, no exaggeration.

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Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:58 am

Inflexitarian

Joined: Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:17 amPosts: 759Location: Toronto

Last night Mister Shadowfax sneezed on me in bed. I was lying there half asleep and he hopped onto my bed and came up for what I thought were going to be cuddles, but instead he just sneezed and I felt kitty spit on my face. Then he hopped off of the bed and ran away.